Evolutionary Morphology Seminar Series
A weekly seminar sponsored by the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, with talks (mostly) by visiting speakers on the subject of Evolutionary Morphology as defined very broadly. Speakers (and audience members) drawn from many areas, including evolutionary biology, anatomy, biomechanics, ecology, paleontology, molecular biology, systematics, conservation biology, and history/philosophy of sciences. Meets in Hinds 176, 5734 S. Ellis, Thursdays at 7:30.
Winter Quarter 2010
Henry Hinds Laboratory, University of Chicago
5734 S. Ellis, Room 176
Thursdays at 7:30 pm
| January 14 | Nicolai Konow Brown University |
Functional innovations and disparity in comparative biology |
| January 21 | John Wiens Stony Brook University |
Making and using the Tree of Life |
| January 28 | Stephanie Pierce University of Cambridge |
Locomotion in the earliest tetrapods: testing models of terrestriality |
| February 4 | Michael Alfaro University of California Los Angeles |
Comparative approaches to studying diversification and macroevolution on the tree of life. |
| February 11 | Lou Zachos Smithsonian Institute |
Modeling echinoid skeletal growth - testing hypotheses of development and evolution |
| February 18 | David Jablonski and Kevin Boyce University of Chicago |
The tropics as an evolutionary engine on land and sea |
| February 25 | Chris Organ Harvard University |
Below the Surface: Discovering Biology with Trees and Fossils |
| March 4 | Rita Mehta University of California-Davis |
Cranial evolution in anguilliform fishes: from functional innovation to species diversification. |
Revised: February 5, 2010